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sonnetteer

sonnetteer is the alternative spelling of sonneteer.

Meaning of sonneteer

Noun

sonneteer (plural sonneteers)

  1. (derogatory, sometimes) A writer of sonnets or small poems.
    • Some starved hackney sonneteer.1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    sonneter

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Forms of sonnetteer

Noun
pluralsonnetteers
Verb
third-person singular presentsonnetteers
present participlesonnetteering
past participlesonnetteered
pastsonnetteered

Questions about sonnetteer

What is sonnetteer the alternative spelling of?
Sonnetteer is the alternative spelling of sonneteer.

Words near sonnetteer in the dictionary

  1. sonnetlike
  2. sonnetomania
  3. sonnetry
  4. sonnets
  5. sonnetted
  6. sonnetteer
  7. sonnetteered
  8. sonnetteering
  9. sonnetteers
  10. sonnetting
  11. sonnettomania

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sonnetteer (page history and authors); sonneteer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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